China Navy's new air-cushion boat
Air boat loaded subjects were divided into officers by major air boats, air cushion vehicles and tanks, air boats and other boats. By displacement and load capacity can be divided into small, medium and large air-cushion craft.
Small air boat: 10 to 20 tons full load displacement, extending battery life of about 100 nautical miles, landing personnel can load more than 30 or about 3 tons of supplies. Air-cushion boats Medium: 50 to 100 tons full load displacement, extending battery life of 100 to 200 nautical miles and can load a tank or visit the dozens of personnel or material of 200 tons. Large air-cushion boat: 200 to 500 tons full load displacement, about 1,000 endurance miles, can load the tank 3 to 5 or visit the hundreds of soldiers or supplies 100 to 300 tons.
Air boat has the speed, swept water line, and will not trigger the mines washed ashore directly Beach and so on. Therefore, with high tactical value. Developed in the air boat, the Russian walking in front of the world, which has a “European bison” is the world’s largest air cushion landing craft, primarily used to transport combat equipment and advance landing team, but can also transport the mines, mine-laying active barrier.
Summer, a certain area of the Gulf of Aden, the Chinese navy, “Kunlun Mountains” ship dock door slowly opened last tank, new air in the engine roar of the boat slid off the dock in the cabin, immediately beneath the huge sea mist. Adjust the direction, the air cushion boat at full gallop away to the depths of the sea, far from looking like a soar on the sea a mass of clouds.
This is the new Chinese navy craft air cushion first appearance in the deep sea, and this is a brilliant debut behind decades of painstaking exploration.
Back in the late 50s of last century, China began to air cushion technology research and development of air-cushion craft. After a painstaking study researchers in the mid 90s of last century, successfully design and manufacture of small boats and air troops. Although the tonnage of this type of small boat, carrying capacity is limited, but it is installed and used in practice, the column was smooth for the new air boat made an important contribution to the research and development.
50 years of sword. December 2009, Chinese naval vessel in the eye of new air boat in the water. In recent years, a landing ship detachment chief Xu Weixiong been concerned about the design and construction of the boat, he told reporters that ship large quantities of condensed air boat advanced digital technology, automation technology, equipment, boats from 90% aerospace, high-power gas turbines, providing enough cushion fan power, so that it can ride like a wild horse as the ocean, speed, load and other parameters to meet the design goals, and the world comparison of similar boats, the performance can also be among the forefront.
New air cushion from the first trial to the boat with the “Kunlun Mountains” ship to sail the Gulf of Aden, the training time of only a few months. Debut “Deep Blue” the same day, in the air when the boat ready to return to mother ship, the reporter somewhat worried, because the deep sea is often unpredictable wind and surge, more critical is the air-cushion boat hull and the “Kunlun Mountains” ship dock the cabin is not only the gap between the wall!
However, the technology allows the crew are excellent journalists worried that some redundant. I saw the boat in the air carrier under the guidance of tanks approaching the end of the dock door. 50 meters, 30 meters, 10 meters … … arrival in the hatch, the air cushion boat with the “Kunlun Mountains” ship in a relatively static moment, and instantly increase the horsepower, precisely tanks got into the dock.
After training, air boat captain Liu Wei very happy unit. “We each have been hundreds of times the crew simulated and actual practice, psychological and operating techniques are very strong.” Liu told reporters: “Even so, we still put out each time are used as a carrier challenges. because even if successful a thousand times, we have determined not to accept a mistake. ”
New set of air boats in one of many new technologies. As a new-type Chinese navy craft air cushion, airworthiness, reliability indicators require the test of time. But what is certain is that, with continuous improvement and perfection, the new air craft will accomplish much.
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